Supernovae shockwaves aren’t spherical

Supernovae shockwaves aren’t spherical
By Paul M. Sutter

When stars blow up, they tend to release their energy in a roughly spherical shape. But much after the initial blast, the resulting shock waves can sometimes be elongated in one direction. A team of theorists used laboratory lasers to identify the potential culprit: magnetic fields. What could possibly tell a supernova blast what to …

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July 17, 2020 at 11:27PM
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